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DMcFadden · #12 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008, 01:32 AM

Chris,

I don't really have much to argue with you about on this one. I agree with you and Dr. Clark on Reformed and Calvinist, but probably not on "Calvinistic" for the very reason you cited. When Harvard hired a Unitarian to teach theology in 1805 that pretty well said it all for "Calvinism" at Harvard. Baptists in America and England carried a lot of water for the cause when others were apostasizing.

And, as the example of John Frame has proven, there is no unanimity in the conservative branch of the Reformed community even on the meaning and application of the RPW. Second, look at the crazies in the PCUSA or CRC. They were my profs in seminary and taught me that the WCF was misguided, that the Princetonians were flat out wrong about the "novelty" of inerrancy, and that ordaining gays is OK. Frankly, I'd take a Dever's or Piper's Calvinistic theology over that stuff anyday!

So, no whining here. I'm baptist not Reformed. But, there is more in common between PB baptists and PB Reformed folks than either of us and the majority of the "Reformed" in America and Europe today.